433. Chapter 433

Maggie finds them hilarious.

Horror movies.

Partially by old habit – Eliza Wilke had loved them, and much as she’d tried, Maggie had never been able to kick the habit after… well, after – and partially because she loves finding continuity errors, she loves yelling at people to not making the stupidest possible decisions, and she loves, to be perfectly honest, being terrified.

Being terrified, and overcoming it.

But Alex?

Alex will bend over backward for her, always, and so Alex settles in for Horror Movie Night, determined to be a DEO Agent, not a trembling, needy girlfriend.

Her resolve doesn’t even last through the first murder.

Because she’s cuddling into Maggie’s side and she’s burying her face in her chest and she’s trying not to – god, she’s trying not to – but she’s shivering.

It takes all she has not to cover her ears with her fingers, but the sound stops, anyway.

She looks up, disoriented, into Maggie’s softly smiling face.

“Babe, you could have told me you can’t do horror movies.”

“I can do – “

“Alex, I would never… I wouldn’t judge you, babygirl. For anything, ever. You’re allowed to run around with an alien ray gun all day and desperately avoid horror movies by night. I won’t tell a soul, Agent Danvers. Okay?”

“But you love them, Maggie, I don’t want you to – “

“To what, to leave you because you don’t like a certain type of movie?”

“To be unhappy with me, to be… bored by me.”

Maggie cuts off her own laughter by kissing Alex sweet, kissing Alex tender, kissing Alex smiling.

“Alex Danvers, I could never, ever be bored by you. Ever. Okay?”

Maggie Sawyer’s smile is nothing but contagious, and Alex can’t help the grin that spreads across her own face.

“Okay.”

“Star Wars instead?”

“Can I still cuddle this close to you?”

“I will always protect you from stormtroopers, Ally. You’re not the only badass in this relationship.”